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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on July 28, 2017 at 11:01pm

To me, it appears slowly rendered, unsure, especially the "D", as many forgeries of anybody do. I'm not familiar with the last year or so of Joe's signatures, if his hand became unsteady, which might account for that hesitant "D" and its shakiness here. Joe's "D"s always struck me as artwork. A thing of beauty. Classical lettering. Almost Heraldic. The architecture of this "D" looks to me like it's either the first time he's building a "D" like that, or one of the very few times. Not a "D" that the author has been constructing subliminally for decades.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Faley on July 29, 2017 at 4:10am

That is what I was thinking. Looks like a couple of hesitations especially the "D" not flowing. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 29, 2017 at 4:24am

its a common forgery

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Faley on July 29, 2017 at 4:36am

Nice to be learning and get the right answer lol. It is on eBay right now with a $300 bid and a scoreboard cert. thanks for your help.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 29, 2017 at 12:53pm

Yep.  Common forgery.

Scammers and unknowing sellers have been using the old Scoreboard COA to list and sell their forgeries for the last 5-10 years.

That Joe DiMaggio forgery is listed by Ebay seller Memorylen.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GENUINE-JOE-DIMAGGIO-AUTOGRAPH-BASEBALL-HOF...

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Faley on July 29, 2017 at 2:38pm

Yes sir that is the one! Crazy how people can sleep at night doing this!

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 29, 2017 at 1:37pm

People are bidding on that crap because they're buying the cert, not the autograph.

That's why forgeries are an easy sell on Ebay.  Ebay is heavily-populated with delusional autograph collectors.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 29, 2017 at 2:10pm

and crooks ready, willing and able to take advantage of them

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 29, 2017 at 2:20pm

Absolutely, Terrier.

The scammers are well aware that Ebay is heavily-populated with wannabe and delusional autograph collectors.

Ebay has the ability and power to fix that, but there is too much money involved when it comes to the sales of forgeries.

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on July 29, 2017 at 2:46pm

I though Ebay had changed their autograph policy sometime some major autograph bust fiasco? Only allowing certain authentication company's COAs that their experts approved of? What happened on Ebay to change that back again, if I'm right about that COA policy ever being in effect at all? I know there's certain card and coin grading services they won't allow official grading service status to.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 29, 2017 at 2:57pm

That stopped a long time ago.

That's why thousands of GFA-certed (and others, of course) forgeries have sold on Ebay during the last 5-6 years.

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on July 29, 2017 at 3:06pm

And I thought they had review personnel, for looking at material certified by other than the approved authenticating services, that steps in and shuts down what they feel is highly suspect among those.

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